A Teenager During the Depression Years

My first teenage year was spent as an eighth grade student in the same one-room public school house where the Hope Protestant Reformed congregation assembled for their worship services on the Lord’s Day. Our family had been members of this small rural church from its origin during the 1924 “common grace controversy”. Throughout the years 1929 to 1936, we had been without a minister and, although several calls had been extended, it wasn’t until 1936 that we received our own pastor. He accepted...